vt., To boast, brag, glorify, praise; boastful, conceited, proud.
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s. A room in a house. Mar. 14:15. A cabin in a ship; a drawer of a bureau; a closet of a room. See KEENA.
v. To boast; to glory; to brag. 1 Oihl. 16:10. To make pretenses; to boast of what one has done. 2 Oihl. 28:19. To be self-conceited; auhea la ka mea nui i kaene ai oukou ia oukou iho? where is the great thing for which you boast yourselves? See KAEENA.
s. High mindedness; pride; self-exaltation.
adj. Excelling; going before; self-opinionated.
adj. With certainty; surely; without error, &c.; no ko'u ike i ka maikai, ko’u mea no ia i olelo kaena ai, from my knowledge of beauty, I can speak with confidence.
Boastful; self-opinionated.
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With certainty; surely; without error, etc.; no ko'u ike i ka maikai, ko'u mea no ia i olelo kaena ai, from any knowledge of beauty, I can speak with confidence.
1. High mindedness; pride; self-exaltation.
2. Same as keena.
To boast; to glory; to brag; to be conceited: auhea la ka mea nui i kaena ai oukou ia oukou iho? Where is the great thing for which you boast yourselves?
room. Land section, Koolauloa, Oahu.
the hot anger. Land sections, various localities.
Point and land section, Puna qd., Hawaiʻi. Northwesternmost point, Lā-naʻi (see North End). ʻAiʻai, the fish demigod, marked a stone here that then turned into the first Hawaiian turtle. (HM 22.) See Poli-hua. Land division, quadrangle, and northwesternmost point, Oʻahu, said to be named for a brother or cousin of Pele who accompanied her from Kahiki. (PH 100, 106, 157.) See Kua-o-ka-lā. Lit., the heat.
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